so this chapter is a little different, i kinda like to portray peoples feeling subtley :) like can you get "im soooo angry"from: grrrrrrrr... just kidding, you must have noticed i say that alot (: so i will cease mucho, just for you ...READ!

2 years later( the reaping day during the 66th hunger games)

Making my way downtown. Walking fast, faces pass and I'm homebound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making my way through the crowd… and I need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder, if I could fall, into the sky, do you think time would pass me by, cuz you know I'd walk a thousand miles if I could just, see you…tonight.

Its always times like these when I think of you and I wonder if you ever think of me. With everything so wrong I don't belong living in your precious memory. Cuz need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder, if I could fall into the sky, do you think time, would pass me by, cuz you know I'd walk a thousand miles, just to see you, tonight…

And I, I…don't want to let you know, I, I, drown in your memory, I, I, don't….making my way downtown walking fast, faces pass and I'm homebound, staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making my way through the crowd…I still need you, and I still miss you, and now I wonder, if I could fall into the sky do you think time would pass us by, cuz you know I'd walk a thousand miles…just to see you tonight… if I could just…hold you…tonight….

(a thousand miles- by venessa carlton.)( Look it up, it is perfect for royal and victor!)

I finished playing the song for him, and he was smiling at me widely, but also he looked sincerely moved that I thought this song reminded me of him. victor stood, and helped me up, he slipped his arms around my waist and drew me close. When my ear was on his chest, listening to his heartbeat, he started to talk.

"royal…" he breathed seductively in my ear, "today's the reaping…. And If you get reaped, I wouldn't hesitate to sponsor you from the very beginning, but you know…I would be going to the capitol with you, and you would need to come home…no matter what,"

"victor, don't think I'll get reaped, I didn't last year… it's a very unlikely chance. With all the other girls in the district,"

"yeah, but still…it wasn't pleasant watching that district four tribute finnick win… he scared me a whole lot, I'm glad I wasn't in his hunger games, I would have been done for…"

"I should get ready then…" I looked down at my jeans and tee-shirt that were both his, and laughed. All he did was look sad, which broke my heart. Since he was a victor, he couldn't voulenteer to protect me if I was reaped, but he was the mentor of those who were reaped. If I was chosen, he would be able to be with me and not have to say goodbye until I went into the arena. He ould help me as much as he could in hopes of getting me home safely with only a few scratches.

"since you and morgin are the same size, why don't you ask to borrow one of her dresses…"

"yeah, I think I will…" I wasn't planning on going "home" gizz is never there anymore, and I have technically almost moved in here already. Gizz decided to father that baby fully, and stays over at emmla's house most of the time, he doesn't even know that I'm over at victors much anymore, only when he is there and asks where I'm going…but that never happens. I usually fend for myself at home, he sends money for me still, but personally I think that It just get dropped off at home anyway so he doesn't send it, let alone have anything to do with it.

I marched up stairs and knocked calmly on her door that was a pink color and very girly.

"yeah?"

"can I come in morgin?"

"sure royal!" I love morgin, she is so sweet, and whenever victor isn't here for some odd reason, I hang around with her. She is only a year or so younger than me and I'm 18. She is a total girly girl though, wearing pink and slight makeup all the time.

She opened the door and let me come past her. I sat on her bed and stared around the familiar room, smiling at all the pictures of me and victor and her and her boyfriend.

"so hows raye?" I asked calmly, seeing a large picture of them.

"he is fabulous. He acts like I'm the only person he sees when I'm around, I cant help but love him to death," she laughed at a silly picture of me and victor caught kissing on the couch by her camera, of course I was red in the picture, but he had on a scowl as he looked over his shoulder to snarl something at his little sister.

"do you have anything I could wear for the reaping?" she nodded and handed me the only blue dress in her closet. She made me put it on once for me and victors date, and since then, it has been my favorite dress. She grabbed a pink one and we both set off to work on getting ourselves pretty.

Once we were ready, we marched down the stairs, my wavy hair bouncing around my shoulders while her strait brown hair was pulled back into an elaborate bun behind her head. victor was there, wearing dress pants and a white shirt. His hair was gelled strait and down instead of spikey and I smiled lovingly at him before giving him a kiss.

Raytee came down the stairs and opened his eyes wide at the beautiful dressy sight he had walked into. I did the same at his attire. Of course he wasn't wearing a shirt…he had sweat pants on and was rubbing his eyes sleepily. Victor laughed.

"did you just wake up raytee?"

"yeah dumbass…" and he marched into the kitchen.

"lucky he is twenty now huh? He doesn't have to have his name entered…"

I nodded at morgin's comment as victor lead us to the door to go to the square and see the dreadful reaping.

VICTOR'S P.O.V

I stood on stage, staring at a nearvous crowd in front of me. I knew where royal was, and how she was staring at me timidly. I blew her a small kiss that happened to be caught on camera, my eyes widened and I looked around as if I never did anything.

"good morning ladies and gentleman I'm your escort for this lovely hunger games! Lets get the ball rolling- the lucky girl is-…" I stared intently at the slips in the bowl labled "female" and prayed a thousand times over…

"royal clearwater!" he chirped clearly. I sighed in relif before finally picking up who's name it was.

"no!" I yelled, slapping my hand over my mouth. The escort looked at me weirdly before he looked at royal, who was walking stiffly to the stage. He gasped and pointed a finger between us.

"oh! What an exciting hunger games this is going to be!" I felt like punching him….sooooo hard…. Royal stood on the other side of the stage, looking as if she was about to cry. Then again, I probably look like that too, and I couldn't believe that we almost got out of this together. My eyes swept to the audience desperately.

"any voulenteers?" the escort asked, looking around happily. No one would raise their hand. But suddenly my eyes met with my sister, she was looking questionally at me, raising her hand slightly. I shook my head, I couldn't bear to loose her either. She hung her head slightly, and I looked at her, telling her silently that it would be okay.

"and the boy tribute is-" the man smiled from ear to ear, and made me frown largely, "dodge rolfinson!" I looked at the unfortunate tribute…but…he didn't look poor at all! He had muscles, large ones… he would stand a chance. This was so unusual! No one from district three looks like that, we are all inventors of electronics, we have a scrap yard and a material warehouse…but only a few work there! Appearently he did though, you could tell by the viens that popped from his arms when he only clenched his fists that he has been doing some HARD labor for the past years.

"voulenteers?" he called to the unpassive audience, No one did anything, so he wrapped up the reaping and told visitors were to go and what not. wiress couldn't mentor this year, she was sick or something, so beetee stood next to me, I turned to him and saw he looked almost depressed.

"beetee," I turned to where royal was walking away, she looked back at me sadly, but kept walking with strength in her stride. I felt so proud of her right now.

"yes victor?"

"do you think she'll make it?" I whispered to him, feeling pain in my own voice.

"she is rather small… yet so were you," I turned to the man, and found him observing royal intently.

"yeah, I could pick her up, and throw her ten yards…" he laughed a little.

"but she seems strong enough, and if you truly do want her to come home, I could help a little. If I mentor dodge, and you mentor her, we could devise a particular plan to get her home. I think that dodge isn't to smart, more brute muscle than anything else I guess. But you can tell that royal is smart victor. She chose you didn't she?" that surprised me, and I looked at him sadly. All he did was nod.

"so….do you think we can get her back?"

"yes, but while were at the capitol, we plan more…"

"beetee…how did you win your hunger games…" he smiled a little at my question, and took out some wire from his pocket.

"I outsmarted them all…" then it hit me. Your physical abilities are just a sideshow… the way you use your brain is how you get out! The ones with the brains can win! So royal had a huge chance! She is the smartest person I know by far, and I'm not about to let the love of my life go…"

"we better get to the train then, got yourself packed?" he laughed a little, making me smile.

"I figured that there would be enough there for twently people my size, so I only packed a few little things." Beetee agreed and we made our way sadly to the train to await the tributes.

ROYAL'S P.O.V

I felt as if I was drowning as I sat down in the exact same room I sat in to say goodbye to victor two whole years ago. My brother walked in and stared at me, his eyes were radiant, glowing sadly as he crossed the room to say goodbye to me for what was likely the last time.

"gizz," I breathed, and I could feel tears behind my eyes, but no matter what happened, they didn't leak. I was confused, hurt, scared…yeah, mostly I'm scared, I'm scared I will never see Gizz again and never see my father again, never see victor's family, never play the piano, never laugh again, never hear victors laugh…and most of all, it killed me that I would probably never see victor ever again.

"royal," he rushed forward and scooped me off the couch completely, holding me so my feet dangled near the ground.

"I'm going to miss you gizz… probably the most…" its true! He was my only friend for most of my life, until I met victor fully a while ago.

"you have to come back! Victor is going to help you! he'll get you home, he just HAS to! I couldn't bear to live without you…" he started to cry, but let me go anyway. I looked behind him as emmla hung back in the hallway, looking sad and on the verge of tears.

"oh emmla," I walked towards her, and saw little coil, their son, standing next to her aswell. Sadly, I noticed that her stomach was swelled up once again.

"how far along are you?" she looked broken.

"only about a month, we were going to tell you today, but-… we just figured out ourselves…"

"don't have that baby without me," I smiled a little, "but if you do, and it turns out to be a girl…name her-"

"if it's a girl royal…I want to name her royal… even if you make it home," I wrapped her in a hug, and she started to cry. She was going to name her child royal, if it was a girl of course, and it broke my heart once more. Because both of his parents were crying, coil started to cry too, I pulled away from her and gave him a hug too.

"don't- go!" he sobbed, and it broke my heart that he told me not to leave him. I certainly love this kid, he is so sweet and nice, its hard not to love him. he looks like me sort of, with blonde hair and brown eyes.

"I will be right back, I promise," and that's when I vowed to myself I would make it back to him, and victor, and gizz and emmla. The peacekeeper came and escourted the crying family away from me. Gizz blew a kiss at me before he disappeared, and I caught it silently, not daring to cry.

"royal!" came a fermilliar squeak from around the corner. I looked up, and saw a desperate morgin running towards me. I opened my arms and she ran into them, sobbing and squeezing me tightly.

"oh royal! I was going to voulenteer! I was going to! But victor forced me not too!" she sobbed into my shoulder, making me gasp.

"huh?" the rest of his family rounded the corner, and I gave each of them a hug. Morgin stayed next to me the whole time, crying and saying sorry between each sentence of everyone else.

When raytee walked up to me, he just stared down at me calmly. The only thing he told me was "come home," and he leaned down and caught my lips with his. I jumped back, but realized with a shock that he tasted the same as victor. I gaped as he turned on his heel and walked around the corner. They all said goodbye to me and walked out, leaving me in my state of shock.

The peacekeeper walked in, and grabbed my arm, which made me jump.

"time to go," he said softly looking sorry for me, genuinely.

"okay," and he led me out of the building. Soon, I was side by side with dodge. He looked happy…yeah…completely and utterly happy.

"so dodge…" he eyed me angrily, "are you happy to go into the hunger games?"

"yeah, I was planning on voulenteering, but appearently that dunce had that already taken care of!" he started to laugh, immediately, I know I am not going to like this guy.

"are you excited?" he grunted, a serious expression settling on his face once more.

"no…"

"why not? if you win, you got a life of luxury laid out for you on a silver platter, you can do whatever you want, and no one can tell you otherwise! Who doesn't want that!"

"maybe someone who isn't willing to kill 23 other kids just to get it, okay?" It caught him off guard, and he almost tripped on a loose rock outside the train platform.

"I like you, you aren't the same as everyone else. But your still stupid as hell." He continued on and left me there gaping at the bottom of the steps to get on the platform.

"yeah? Okay, and I wont be surprised if you come home and get addicted to morphling while I frown on you from the heaven that you probably don't belive in while my boyfriend, brother, knephew, sister and soon to be family are sobbing their eyes out you bastard!" he stopped and gaped at me while a smile tugged at my lips.

"well i-" I stepped up onto the stage and put a firm hand on his chest.

"save it for the games…" and marched into the train with a smile.

i was going to have her say something about her being a threat, but i think he understands it. now the story starts to get good, so dont quit on me now! i got some ideas!

p.s that song is such a good song for them, i am thinking it should be the theme song for this whoooleee thing. so go to youtube, type "a thousand miles by vanessa carleton" and listen to it closely! it even has piano in it! got to love a breakthrough like this huh?

REVIEW :) -jaybayray123 p.s royal isnt royal